In the past, religion used to play a very important role in the giving of proper names. The object of this study is to show the Orthodox Parish registry books as a valuable source of the socioonomastics studies. The given ...

Mosquitoes (Culicidae) is a family of insects from the order Díptera. The mosquito, like an another insect - a fly, is the motivational basis for many proper names, including place names, surnames and historical nicknames. ...

Tlie paper investigates the semantics and the role ofthe image ofthe underground (the depths ofthe earth, grotto, cave, underground maze, groundwater, cities that sank into the ground or were covered with lava) and ruins ...

The topic of the essay is related to the semantics of the image of the horse (as the most important one among nineteenth-century Sarmatian culturemes) in Sienkiewicz’s vision of the Sarmatian past. Being a representative ...

The article is a reflection on the creation of female identity towards semantics of interiors in the prose texts of the 2nd half of the 19th century It is inspired by the “literary world of things”, which is the subject ...